Client dashboard

Contacts

Your own address book: the people you can start a personal space with, without going through an organization.

What contacts are for

Most of the people you talk to arrive through an organization or a topic. Contacts are the other route: people you have added directly, who become available when you start a personal space that belongs to no organization.

The list shows each person by name and username, and which organizations you have in common — useful for telling two similar names apart before you message one of them.

The contacts list, showing each person and the organizations you share

Adding someone

Add a registered client by their exact username. There is no request to accept and no invitation to send: type the username, confirm, and they are in your list.

The Add contact dialog, with the username field

Adding is one-way. They appear in your list and become reachable for your personal spaces; you do not appear in theirs, and they are not told.

Contacts take a username only — an email address will not resolve here. Email is how you reach someone who has no account yet, and that goes through an organization or topic invitation instead.

Finding someone in the list

Type what you remember of a name or username into Search and press Apply. The list comes back filtered, which on a long list is faster than scrolling and is the quickest way to confirm you have the right person before starting a space.

The memberships column is the tie-breaker when two people share a name: it tells you which organizations you actually share with each of them.

Blocking and removing

Removing a contact takes them out of your list and out of the pool of people you can start a personal space with. It is a tidying action: it changes nothing for them, and you can add them again at any time.

Blocking is the stronger one. A blocked person cannot reach you anywhere — not in your personal spaces, not through shared organizations. It is meant for someone you want stopped rather than merely filed away.

Blocking is reversible: unblock at any time and they can reach you again. Both actions ask you to confirm first, because neither is obvious to undo if you did not mean it.